Adobe did announce the other day that they hadn't given CS3 the all-clear on Leopard yet. Which most likely means there are some bugs to iron out. This might cause annoyance. And while no doubt they will iron out the bugs, CS3 is a big suite of programs that is still being patched quite heavily on Tiger. Most professionals hold back on updates of an OS because these are not simple programs to update and it took long enough for Adobe to go Universal and now to leap from Tiger to Leopard is even further work. If you can buy CS3 now and wait for a few months before buying a new Mac - or else if you can buy the Mac this week and take advantage of the uptodate price later then do so. (Remember CS3 can be active on two of your computers at once, and can be easily activated/deactivated on different machines as you upgrade.)

"3. I have access to a Leopard seed and have the full compliment of CS3 apps (well the Designer pack + Fireworks) and can confirm that they do indeed run like grade A crap. Numerous problems as reported to Apple have been:

 Random crashes in all CS3 apps
 Input box problems and sliders do not work properly in all CS3 apps
 You canot run Photoshop for longer than 20 minutes before it either crashes on you or causes your Mac to stall and even the simplest tasks like nudging a layer cause the spinning beach ball of death.
 Flash has serious display issues when looking at more than one document.
 Various save problems in Illustrator and problems when opening more than one document (two windows open, can;t close the first one).

These are just the ones off the top of my head but the list I sent through to Apple was extensive. This is on top of a lot of bugs in both Mail.app and Safari.

I think Adobe is just reminding Apple that they need to shape up and put their fears to rest because the deadline is looming and if Adobe need to make any changes then they need to do so now before it is too late."

Yeah, if you read later in the comments though there's a guy who said Photoshop and Acrobat work fine but he hasn't tried the others. That's before the thread devolved into "Is Adobe the new Quark?" and a rant about Avid.

So I'm not sure how there can be two radically two different experiences...also this was a version from the middle of September, who knows what Adobe has done in the meantime wrt patches.

because i make 90+% of my income in one way or another thru my MBP, i am waiting a couple of weeks before i install leopard to make sure everything works as promised, including CS3. i do not need to be the 1st kid on my block to have leopard installed, but i do nee to be the kid on my block with a fully functioning machine at all times.

i decided to take the safe route and bought my new laptop tonight with the install disks pre-ordered. i figure, it's the best of both world. i have tiger now and will hold onto leopard until i know it will not cause too many problems. i need cs3 to work.

i am waiting a couple of weeks before i install leopard to make sure everything works as promised, including CS3. i do not need to be the 1st kid on my block to have leopard installed, but i do nee to be the kid on my block with a fully functioning machine at all times.

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